Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fortified Empire of Drexel Hillsville is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Grand General with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.515 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philadelphia. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, the nation's massive battleships are often mistaken for islands, and priests are being drafted by the church load. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Drexel Hillsville's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Rahniism, and its currency is the Pint.

Drexel Hillsville is ranked 25th in Europe and 2,226th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and